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Or the friends of the US President, or the US president....

They don’t give a fuck if murderers and armed robbers get away with their shit.

They care if murderers and robbers get away with their shit, they don't care if murderers and robbers get away with your shit. Important distinction.

Count dankula, a fascist youtuber in the UK...

Wait until you see what the Fascists will do once they're in power, because they ain't gonna abolish the OSA or delist Palestine Action from the Proscribed Orgs list, that's for sure. Reform UK are saying "we're against the OSA" while at the same time banning books from Libraries in Council areas they control.

We are fucked five ways from sideways, the previous fuckers fucked things up, the current fuckers are fucking things up, the next fuckers are gonna fuck things up even more.

Let that sink in.

Please no, i am already drowning in it.

Hey CIA, @ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online thinks that Skynet persecuting Americans who disagree with Skynet might not be ultra patriotic, or sufficiently supportive of Israel genocide. Swat them now!

There are hundreds of arrests with their new law and basically all of them sre activists or people sharing information the genocide in Gaza. They then took fingerprints and DNA samples from them to enter into a database and they locked them up in jail for days.

... He never had to give fingerprints or DNA and never spent any time in a cell.

Erm, what?

Those hundreds of people have been arrested for offences under the Terrorism Act, protesting about the genocide in Gaza, and because they used the name of a (currently) proscribed terrorist group. Fingerprinting for arrests is default, DNA is a new one on me, but probably because they are under arrest for charges loosely related to terrorism, then that's procedure. They weren't arrested for other Public Order offences like Dankula would have likely been charged under. Although I am surprised Dankula didn't have to give fingerprints at a minimum. I did when I got caught shoplifting (40-odd years ago).

TBH people are thick. For example, some of the protestors crying about being held for 14 days. Well, that's standard for terrorism-related offences (including referring to proscribed groups like these people were):

You can be held without charge for up to 14 days if you’re arrested under the Terrorism Act. (https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-held-in-custody)

The police have the right to:

• take photographs of you
• take fingerprints
• take a DNA sample, such as from a mouth swab or head hair root
• swab the skin surface of your hands and arms

They do not need your permission to do this. (https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/giving-fingerprints-photographs-and-samples)

The charges, of which only 10 of the 221 people arrested are referred to here: https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/statement-on-palestine-action/.

Do I, as a UK citizen, agree with this action to arrest en masses? No.

Do I think that the group in question should be proscribed? I don't know - some sources point to the fact they are/were planning other actions, some seem to think not. They certainly aren't in the league of the IRA back when I was a kid, and we heard about them very often on the news in the evenings. I've even seen the aftermath of some of their work back when I was travelling through London (at the same time as the Square Mile Bombing).

Do I think the UK Government are overstepping their bounds and exerting tighter and tighter control over the UK populace? Definitely. Sadly, too many people are either blase or ignorant and think "it doesn't affect me m8" and so do nothing about it, because we have been conditioned into looking out for number one only, and not considering the needs of the society at large.

The UK Govt has made some dangerously vague laws surrounding the right to protest, which makes it so much easier for police to decide that a protest is illegal (a knee-jerk idiotic piece of legislation in reaction to Just Stop Oil gluing themselves to roads or throwing soup at art). The culmination of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (aka Snoopers Charter), Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022, Public Order Act and now the Online Safety Act are all cumulative cuts and restrictions slowly being placed on the UK populace at large.

We are going to reap a whirlwind of pain from these laws being passed. Look at the shitshow of Apple vs UK Govt. That "request" for a backdoor to encrypted data (for worldwide Apple users btw) was secret, it was deemed illegal in UK law for Apple to reveal it, confirm it etc (destroying the warrant canary concept some places use) and only because a newspaper revealed it were Apple able to do anything about it. Getting the UK Govt to back down after their failure to keep it under wraps with a hidden tribunal (meaning us joe bloggs on the street would never know the outcome) and forcing them to put it into a public court means the UK Govt have egg on their face.

But it hasn't done shit about the actual law. That law still stands, and we still have no recourse to find out if Google, Facebook, or even that little car forum have had similar requests from the UK Gov. Because it's illegal to know.

The whole thing is fucking stupid.

Coming soon: McDonalds get sued for selling burgers to a minor that ate 3 burgers every day and died! McDonalds must set thresholds per customer and collect IDs from minors!

I would be for holding companies responsible when they fuck up, like McDonalds clearly marketing burgers to minors and saying it's healthy, but we must not hold them more accountable than they really are

The only privacy is local. And actually, given Microsoft, local and Linux-based.

Soon: huggingface gets sued because hosted models are being used for getting drug recipes, or did not actively prevent people from killing themselves through it

By the way, I was recently testing https://nano-gpt.com/ which claims to have privacy through TEE models... but I don't see how it's private in any way? It just guarantees that the output went through some TEE, but it doesn't guarantee that the input and output didn't leak elsewhere or got logged

I remember watching a video from the early 2000s that had a nightmare privacy scenario of someone trying to order a pizza, but then that person said nothing other than what they wanted and the people already knew his address, his job history, his health records and said that due to his latest health checkups if he wanted his double meat pizza they would need to pay additional, otherwise they would have to go with their health recommended vege pizza.

The video was made at a time when smart phones were a rarity and most people ordered food the old fashioned way... they called the place by phone, told them what they wanted and where they were , and paid for when it arrived in cash, since portable credit card readers were very uncommon.

Now we ARE in that situation, except for syncing medical records so that any company can use it. But we are going to get there soon enough, and it will be 'for the children, you pedo! Also if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear!' Bullshit that for some reason everyone believes and will never question... even if they caught up in the system themselves for some bullshit reason they will never, ever connect the dots.

That is one of the fundamental flaws of machine learning like this, the way they are trained means they end up always trying to agree with the user, because not doing so is taken as being a "wrong" answer. That is why they hallucinate answers too - because "I don't know" is not an acceptable answer, but generating something plausible that the user takes as truth works.
You then have to manually try to reign them in and prevent them from talking about things you don't want them to, but they are trivially easy to fool. IIRC, in one of these suicide cases the LLM did refuse to talk about suicide, until the user told it it was all just for a fictional story. And you can't really "fix" that without completely banning it from talking about those things in every single occasion, because someone will find a way around it eventually.

And yeah, they don't care, because they are essentially just predictive text algorithms turned up to 11. Chatbots like ChatGPT and other LLMs are an excellent application of both meanings of the word "Artificial Intelligence" - they emulate human intelligence by faking being intelligent, when they in reality are not.

You must have used ChatGPT a lot to say this, because that's completely false. There are safeguards for both things

And that is because they get their vast, innumerable sums of digital money from world governments! Human people are allowing an advertising and surveillance tool to Wormtongue its way into their heads and their lives because it breathlessly encourages and agrees with everything they think.

I just don't believe that our perceptions and ability to handle enthusiastic sycophantic agreement is evolved enough yet to combat something like this. I could see it being intoxicating to anyone for everything they say to be agreed with, confirmed, and called genius. I don't necessarily blame the people falling for it (though I do think adults who fall for it are a bit sad and need to grow up a bit), but it's definitely going to be massively convenient for governments to have their citizens just voice everything they're thinking.

Sort of like Minority Report but everybody says their own future crimes outright to a little robot butler instead.

Please tell me how to do it over an API. I really want to know.

Edit. I have LM studio and downloaded AI chatbots. But they give far more bullshit than chatgpt (which i rarely use much anyway), which is why talking to it feels even more pointless than chatgpt at times.